From our correspondent in London

Rupert Murdoch and his son James are roundly scolded by a British parliamentary committee responsible for a report on the scandal of the late plays of the tabloid News of the World. Rupert Murdoch "is not fit to lead a large international group," concludes the report, released Tuesday. The board deems "surprising" the allegations of Murdoch, father and son under which they would not have been in practice courtant espionage on a large scale in force in their newspapers. "Rupert Murdoch closed his eyes and demonstrated a willful blindness to what was happening in their societies and publications," the whips 121-page report, the culmination of nine months of hearings. MEPs also say that the News of the World and its publisher News International deliberately "misled the committee about the true nature and extent of the investigations they claimed to have carried on wiretapping."

Several leaders of the media group, are also the subject of harsh criticism. His ex-CEO Les Hinton is considered an "accomplice" of concealment of practices in the home. The parliamentary committee has, however, divided on the report's findings, adopted by six votes against four. Conservative members refused to accept the judgment against Rupert Murdoch's ability to manage. Labour MP Tom Watson, spearheading the investigation, has firmly told the opposite: "News International has conducted a cover-up scale of its illegal actions. Its top leaders have lied to parliament repeatedly. And the two men at the head, Rupert and James Murdoch, should now respond to these facts. They have corrupted our country to shame our police and our parliament. They lied, cheated, practiced blackmail and intimidation. "

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The report leaves the House of Commons to decide on possible sanctions, which could involve the convening of Rupert Murdoch for a public apology. It is an embarrassment media mogul facing some of its shareholders, especially Americans, tired of the damage inflicted by News Corp. in this case. The report could also weigh negatively in the review by Ofcom, the regulator of the British media, the legitimacy of the group to manage the BSkyB satellite TV bouquet, whose license could be withdrawn.

Finally, the parliamentary report increases the pressure on David Cameron, who was summoned Monday to the House of Commons where he justified his support for his culture minister Jeremy Hunt challenged for its proximity to the leaders of the Murdoch group in reviewing the file BSkyB. Tom Watson claimed that the Prime Minister and his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the court submit to their email exchanges with the leaders of the Murdoch group.

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This is the story of an Alsatian deputy mayor, Eric Straumann, who, wishing to save a supermarket brand of monumental and illegal blocks all the mayors of France who want to limit the display advertising in their municipality. Summoned by the prefect to remove the acronym which stands Cora to 17 meters above the campaign Husain (1600 inhabitants), the elected UMP has decided to amend the second law of the Grenelle del'environnement on the billboard said "outside business card templates." Include: large panels and signs disfiguring number of entries in cities.

"I have a large area with a large sign that does not bother anyone,

The sign of Cora Hussen.

Against finance, but not against the big bosses. The Socialist candidate for president, Francois Hollande, has reassured business leaders of the CAC 40, in an interview in Paris Matchpubliée Thursday. He was lampooned in mid-February, their salary increases "of 36% on average in 2010."

As we approach the elections, it has softened its tone. "We will need all the forces for the country's recovery. Therefore, in the aftermath of the presidential election, I will convene the CAC 40 companies, although many of their leaders will not vote for me, he says. I tell them: "You are the spearhead of the French economy. We need you and you need the state. We face together the challenge of recovery of France "."

The Socialist candidate was told by the president of MEDEF, Laurence Parisot, France 2 on Thursday, that the vocation of the employers' association was "to work with any government whatever." Tenors Socialist Party had in fact accused of campaigning for the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy free business cards.

Francois Hollande tried several times to reassure the campaign finance and management. Visiting London, and then he gave himself to enemy "the world of finance," he said at the City he was not "aggressive" and that n ' there was "nothing to fear" if elected.

Still, the Socialist candidate wants to increase the effective tax rate of 35% in large groups and, among other things, against the practice of stock options. "France seems to bring out the multinationals," said Denis Kessler, CEO of Scor, quoted by The Economist. For the second consecutive week, the weekly British Liberal lampooned the socialist project to tax at 75% marginal bracket the higher incomes of over one million euros.

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The bubbly TV on fire from new technologies and social networks. The 49th edition of MIPTV, in Cannes held until April 4, devotes the contents that are written in all media. Alongside the traditional major broadcasters and producers, and large sizes that are declining international dramas, new actors impose their brand to go international programs.

Some supply the market of their web series on YouTube. This is the case of Machinima, a specialist online game that has received 166 million unique visitors per month. Six million visitors flocked to her YouTube channel to watch the miniseries Torn Apart, promoting the series The Walking Dead, American producer of AMC. Some, like Bite Me, are available on the Web even the luxury of hearing superior to that of mainstream TV productions. Enough to convince the studio Lion's Gates to partner with Machinima to create the second season of Bite Me This time for television.

"The first impact of the Internet, said Laurine Garaude, director of the TV division of Reed Midem is an explosion of supply and a real competition of brands to offer original content, including among the studios." Other example, the format "Fashion Star", produced by the American Electus, which will be promoted today by the supermodel Elle Macpherson. The day after the mailing of this contest fashion collection, it will be available in stores. "It is an immense field for brands, said Laurine Garaude yet. The impact of social networks that takes precedence and can bring back the viewers on the live program at a time when we only speak delinearization. "

Dating, coaching and quiz

This influence is not limited to the porosity between the different screens. It also infuses the TV trends. "Never, classic television has done more heavily loaded with programs promoting social cohesion, authenticity and humor. All concepts summed up in one, in the jargon of television: the feel good, "smiles Bertrand Villegas, one of the leaders of The Wit, the agency expertise TV programs worldwide. "This color is found in the mechanical as the most popular are the talent competition, issues of dating, coaching, or quizzes," he says.

No more coaches and welcome to the tips of friends tend "peer to peer". As "Coach Diaries," which is to dispense with the psy to trust a panel of citizens who provides analysis and advice. A concept devised by the Israeli Armoza, who has a contract with TF1 first glance, especially. Same concept for the pilot "Desperate Neighbors," distributed by All3Media, which is to entrust a family in crisis in its neighborhood.

Side talent contest and quiz, Endemol has two formats that should take over "Money Drop": "The Code", a complex game mechanics whose aim is to discover the code of a credit card, but also "Sounds Familiar Your Face," a singing competition, inspired by the videos posted on YouTube by users and tubes containing the stars of yesterday and today.

MIPTV but also confirms the tendency of large international co-productions and the fusion of talent from the small and big screen. Beside the series Titanic, produced by ITV, which will be the great event of this edition, the red carpet will be occupied by Top of the Lake, performed by Jane Campion (The Piano) and produced by Sundance Channel and BBC2, or Hit and Miss yet, FremantleMedia, with actress Chloe Sevigny. For its part, TF1 was the event on Sunday with the announcement of the series The Great, distributed by SevenOne and starring Jean Reno star.

Users are indeed more likely to make purchases from the shelf but it's mostly e-commerce, according to a survey conducted by Orange. And if they plébiscitent reading news on this screen pleasant, that finds her diary, they are not necessarily willing to pay. In the U.S., only 14% of users have an application fee information, the survey conducted in the fall by the Pew Research Center Center among 1200 users. Only 21% would be willing to pay $ 5 a month to access their preferred source of information on shelf.

In France, the time spent reading newspaper articles increased by 75% for tablet users. The tablet has changed the online consumer and has particular evening.

"63% of these same consumers prefer the traditional players in the information, having a strong brand, aggregators like Google News," according to a study by the agency Starcom and BBC.com. But only 2% of households are equipped … And it is especially the magazines that have taken their game from the start by providing copies of pay. Newspapers rely surf craze enhance their subscription offer which allows to find the newspaper on all media.

"Buy simple and painless"

In addition to revenue from advertising, some also hope to sell their content on the tablet. "People are willing to spend as long as the act of purchase is simple and painless, around € 0 my credit score.10 article," said William Multrier, which launched YouMag, an aggregator of content by topic, iPad . "The economy of the media on the net is made of small numbers." Ad rates have fallen "but the production costs of essays pure player more," Sire Cédric assumes, of Webedia. Clearly, traditional media will survive after a diet, tablets or not.

Especially as intermediaries try to capture this market. Several aggregators have joined the race. They propose a new reading experience. Flipboard, for example, appears as the contents recovered a magazine on social networks. But the media are wary of these intermediaries that undermine the unity of the mark (before they bought a newspaper and not an article or section). Moreover, "they are only useful for more widely distributed paid content. Otherwise, on the free items, they cannibalize our advertising revenue, "says does one group within the French ePresse Premium.

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Antoine Frérot, CEO of Veolia, has again scored points in the guerrilla who opposes Proglio, former CEO of the environment and current president of EDF. Thursday, the Board of Directors of Veolia was held in the absence of Proglio. The meeting, which took place in calm, devoted to a marked shift in the balance of power between the two men at the expense of Proglio, and in favor of Mr. Frérot.

Esther Koplowitz and Jean-Francois Dehecq, two directors of Proglio relatives, should leave the Board in effect at the expiration of their term at the general meeting on May 16, 2012. The banker at Lazard, George Ralli, hitherto independent director and be close to Proglio, will he, the representative of Groupama, in place of Jean Azema, arrived five months ago the management of the mutual insurer .  

"Engendering the board"

Finally, Serge Michel, the fourth director whose term will soon expire, is the only one to be renewed as it is. 85 years old and named, like all other board members when Proglio was CEO of Veolia, this connoisseur of Veolia always follows the group and its executives very closely.

Antoine Frérot wanted, according to a close, "feminize the board and introduce other adminirtrateurs present and ready to engage in the conduct of Veolia Environnement." Two women, Maryse Aulagnon, founding president of the Affine group, specializing in commercial real estate, and Nathalie Rachou, manager of Topiary Finance, should come to the board at the general meeting, as well as the general manager of the automotive Valeo, Jacques Aschenbroich. Finally, Augustin de Romanet, who recently retired head of the Deposit, Veolia's largest shareholder with 9.2% stake, will be replaced by chief financial officer of the public group, Olivier Mareuse.

Of seventeen directors, only three or four belong, after the meeting, the clan of personalities hostile to Mr. Frérot. The risk of a challenge after the elections, the leadership of this group which the State is not a shareholder, seems to go away.

In February, Proglio had sought to evict his ex-Dolphin Executive Officer of Veolia. He had found the boards of other voices to challenge the implementation of the recovery plan of the group. But the prospect of arrival of former Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo, opportunely announced in early March, killed the project in the bud. Better, Mr. Frérot then received its directors affirmed its support radical strategy, focused on an overall cost reduction, debt and group activities to local services. Although some have yet to see "how the restructuring is taking place," investors and financial analysts have welcomed the decision of the board. The stock has gained 1.08% Thursday. Worst performance of the CAC 40 in 2011, he returned 43% since January 1. What, again, release the pressure on the group.

They are few policies with which we can talk about management. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who before the policy has worked in marketing, communication and management, talk forever about human relationships at work. Young job seekers, future trainees … failing to have stemmed the unemployment, the former Prime Minister gives good advice on how to pass a job interview: ask the right distance, to help engage the recruiter to know you, know not to get choked by the employer too talkative, manifesting his "want to want" suggests the likes of Johny.

And Jean-Pierre Raffarin also gives an interesting perspective on the art of interviewing the wrong spot, "he talks too much and is too hasty cash advance to savings account." Raffarin knows whereof he speaks and knows well. Author of an autobiography, I will walk always affect (Flammarion), he can create a climate in an interview even if we found a little worried when we arrived. A few days before the meeting of the candidate Sarkozy Villepinte, we question the assessment of managerial policies based on criteria. He does not believe it. In politics "you are good you stay, you're bad you're leaving," but adds "the problem is that voters sometimes has a very special notice."

The recession strikes again the countries of the euro for the second time in three years. The currency area will see its GDP to contract by 0.3% in 2012, according to European Commission forecasts that appear to save the two largest economies: France and Germany.

The downward revision – Brussels was expecting again in the fall of an increase in activity of 0.5% – extends to the entire European Union. France escapes the turnaround with a forecast growth of 0.4%, roughly in line with latest government forecasts Fillon (+0.5%).

Failing to be a locomotive, Germany allows the EU to avoid the worst. With an expected growth of 0.6%, Europe's largest economy has its direct neighbors of the stalemate, the image of France, Austria (+0.7%), Denmark (+1.1 %) or in Poland (+2.5%). There are two important exceptions to the ripple effect: the Netherlands who plunge by 0.9% and Belgium 0.1%.

Southern countries of the euro are paying the heaviest price by debt and austerity. Italy's GDP would shrink by 1.3%, 1% of Spain, Portugal and Greece would suffer even more. Olli Rehn, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, evokes a recession yet more "moderate" in 2009 and bears his gaze to signs of stabilization or thinning at the end of the year fast cash online.

Strategy in question

Remains a growing number of economists and politicians worry about the costs of social and economic efficiency of the recovery strategy for the past two fiscal years. Growth, it is precisely at issue EU summit on Thursday and Friday. David Cameron – but Nicolas Sarkozy or Angela Merkel -, Spain and Italy already calling for a rebalancing of priorities: less for austerity and more to the activity. The Netherlands and Poland are on the same line.

Brussels is sticking for now, the official line. "Countries that markets to monitor more closely should strive to reach their budget target" of return to equilibrium, Commissioner Rehn insisted Thursday. Spain, which has discovered a heavier deficit by changing the majority, however, could be an exception. Brussels could fall, "when there will be more clear," the deficit limit imposed in Madrid (4.4% of GDP in 2012).

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Sensitive issues for Air France were telescoped Friday. The specter of a new strike – which costs about € 8 million per day in the company – has not disappeared.

Thierry Mariani, the Minister of Transport, received Friday morning all the unions in the sector air about the proposed law on guaranteed service in the airline. He recalled that the four-day strike which ended Thursday night has caused the removal of 1,241 flights including 183 "hot", that is to say that the cabin crew did not show up at the last moment.

A social historical construction

Adamantly opposed to the central position of the text, that is to say, the obligation to go on strike 48 hours in advance, the unions reserve the right to initiate a new social movement during the February vacation. "The legislative session ends on March 6, it's just at holiday time. We do our fault, "said Yves Deshayes, the president of SNPL, main pilots' union.

For the government, "this law is necessary to enable that passengers are informed in advance of flight cancellations, which does not compromise the right to strike," reiterated Thierry Mariani. "When it is announced and it is predictable in advance, the cost of the strike is less," added the Minister.

The conflict comes as the management of Air France on Friday launched the start of a historical social construction. All collective agreements governing the employment of different categories of staff are set to flat. Friday, a central works council – disrupted by protesters – set a "method of agreement", that is to say a framework for establishing the timetable and objectives.  

Mid-March, a draft termination or renegotiation of agreements will be subject to consultation. That's when management and unions will come to the heart of dialogue. Both parties theoretically agree to fifteen months. "Given the state of the company, we are all agreed to enter into negotiation and move quickly," said Franck Mikula, president of the Unac, the largest union among the stewards and stewardesses. At a hearing of the company management in the Senate last Wednesday, HRD Group, Jean-Claude Cros, explained that he should certainly improve the effective working time of employees of the company. "Some agreements date from the years 1970, must be reformed. "

In recent weeks, Alexander Juniac provided guidance on the extent of its plan to reduce costs for three years. The first part intended to make one billion euros in savings by 2014 was detailed mid-January. Another billion euros must be cleared through the social measures taken by the summer by improving staff productivity. This effort could lead to job cuts. "But our CEO does not speak of the industrial project and gives us no guarantee on the job," laments Frank Mikula. Juniac Alexander explains that we will have to invent a new business model while renegotiating collective agreements. The high wire.

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By organizing a eG8 the eve of the G8 in Deauville last May, Nicolas Sarkozy has brought the Internet for the first time, among the concerns of leaders. In line with their statement. Now we must find the tools for an Internet "free, open to all." To do this, Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy, today organized a seminar in Paris bringing together 13 Ministers of the Intergovernmental digital from around the world.

Innovation and Networks, protection of privacy, digital divide, security against cyber attacks are on the agenda of the conference New World 2.0. However, "there will be no statement after the conference, because there is already the declaration of Deauville, Le Figaro said Eric Besson. I wanted to spend New World 2.0 principles into action. It is time to materialize. "

Participants include, among others, Elliot Schrage, head of public policy for Facebook, David Drummond, Senior Vice President in charge of development of Google and Stéphane Richard, CEO of France Telecom, and Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission , in charge of the digital agenda. "This is progress as concretely as possible. These are issues that must be discussed together. New World 2.0 will bring together participants from 18 countries from five continents and all walks of life: ministers, large companies, startups, bloggers, venture capitalists, civil society, "explains Eric Besson cash advance today.

Value of content

The question remains networks at the heart of the debate. "There would not have the current development of the Internet without investing heavily in networks. In addition, we are only at the beginning of the increased use of networks.This raises the question of standards, quality of networks and investments, "says the minister. Before continuing, "On networks, we also work with the Americans. We do not want to trap them. What is the value of networks that are circulating over the contents. Our goal is to involve all major players. Thus we are able to be in the same round table number 2 on Google and the boss of France Telecom. "

If no resolution is produced at the end of this seminar, we must also rely on the goodwill of the United States, who will take over the presidency of the G8, to wedge the next go digital . "The event was to bring Internet to the agenda of the G8. And the highlight today is to bring together so many Internet stakeholders to implement together the principles of Deauville, "said Eric Besson.